The Art of Black Grace 1/5
Karanga Plaza, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland
20/11/2022 - 10/12/2022
Production Details
Neil Ieremia and Black Grace
Neil Ieremia and renowned New Zealand Pacific Contemporary dance company BLACK GRACE in association with performing arts partner Auckland Live present THE ART OF BLACK GRACE 1/5 – an Immersive Dance Experience by Neil Ieremia (ONZM), supported by Creative New Zealand.
Due to unexpected shipping delays of essential components for the production, The Art of Black Grace 1/5 will now open on Sunday, November 20 at a new location Karanga Plaza, Wynyard Quarter.
Black Grace unveils its most ambitious, exhilarating creative project yet. The Art of Black Grace 1/5 is a state-of-the-art, first of its kind interactive dance experience. Part-performance, part-exhibition and part-archive, set in a non-contact environment that uses sophisticated technology to immerse audiences in the extraordinary world of Black Grace.
Enter the universe of The Art of Black Grace – a portable 360 degree, 15 meter diameter by 6 meter high ‘cylindrical structure’ situated in Auckland’s Karanga Plaza, Wynyard Quarter that accommodates up to 100 people. Designed so the audience feels as if they are within a sensory show as visuals and sounds are displayed on 288sqm of LED panels.
Black Grace founder and artistic director Neil Ieremia says, “The Art of Black Grace speaks directly to our purpose, to create world-class experiences in Pacific Contemporary Dance; and our vision, to create transformational dance experiences of the highest calibre that represent our unique place in the Pacific. Our ultimate goal is to have multiple displays in different locations across the globe at one time – one has to dream big”.
Link to The Art of Black Grace
THE ART OF BLACK GRACE 1/5
Auckland
Karanga Plaza, Wynyard Quarter – Sunday, November 20 – Saturday, December 10
Black Grace membership pre-sale from Thursday, October 27
Ticketmaster membership pre-sale from Friday, October 28
General tickets on sale Monday, October 31
**Tickets $20.00 – booking fee will apply
@blackgracedanceco
Session times every half hour;
Sunday, November 20 – 11am – 5pm
Mondays – Tuesdays 6pm – 8.30pm
Wednesdays – Thursdays 6pm – 9.30pm
Fridays – 6pm – 11.30pm
Saturdays – 11am – 11.30pm
Sunday, Nov 27 & Dec 4 – 11am – 8:30pm
Media contact:
Bridget de Launay / de Launay Enterprises
Email: Bridget@delaunayenterprises.co.nz
Mobile : 021 630 622
Neil Ieremia and Black Grace
Dance , Digital presentation , Pasifika contemporary dance ,
30 mins
An innovative Dance Dreamscape
Review by Taualofa Totua 23rd Nov 2022
The Art of Black Grace ⅕ is an outstanding and immersive project led by creative powerhouse Neil Ieremia. As an audience, we are taken away from the moody lighting and intimacy of the stage, and instead thrown into the transparent and thrilling universe of Black Grace. Viewers are welcome participants in the show alongside the on-screen dancers and animations.
Throughout the show, your point of view shifts and you move as the visuals do, across the brilliant cylindrical 360 degree, six-metre high, screen technology.
From being underwater to witnessing graffiti artist expressions, Ieremia facilitates a powerful sensory show of his world.
The Art of Black Grace ⅕ is an innovative dance dreamscape, equipped with equal suspense and the open-minded, world-building wondering of youth. We see honest observations of an evolving world and the emotional flow-on effects this has on a young Ieremia. Floating between a dream-like state and the pressures of reality, dance communicates how one can use ambition to their advantage.
Elements of Samoan culture, youth and Space itself are combined to illustrate the ambition of one boy to dream great dreams.
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